Trump, Schmidt writes according to Axios, said, “Kelly needed to be loyal to him, and only him.”
Kelly, who went on to serve as White House chief of staff, “immediately realized the problem with Trump’s request for loyalty, and he pushed back on the President’s demand,” Schmidt’s book states, according to Axios.
Instead, Kelly said that he would be “loyal to the Constitution and the rule of law, but he refused to pledge his loyalty to Trump.”
